The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture

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Página 181Maori of New Zealand, possessed dogs prior to being visited by European sailing
ships. (Dogs were also present on the Tuomotus, but little is known about how
they were used.) Virtually all Polynesian dogs ended their lives as part of a ...

Página 183While this shows that Maori dogs were useful in the hunt, from an optimal
foraging perspective, the hunting of worms also shows how hard up the Maoris
were for animal food — a subject to which we will return in the next chapter.
There is also ...

Página 184modern-day Euro-American dog lovers. Fifty miles north of the Arctic Circle near
Colville Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories there is a group of Hare, an
Athabaskan-speaking people, who make their living from hunting and trapping.

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Marvin Harris is an American anthropologist who was educated at Columbia University, where he spent much of his professional career. Beginning with studies on race relations, he became the leading proponent of cultural materialism, a scientific approach that seeks the causes of human behavior and culture change in survival requirements. His explanations often reduce to factors such as population growth, resource depletion, and protein availability. A controversial figure, Harris is accused of slighting the role of human consciousness and of underestimating the symbolic worlds that humans create. He writes in a style that is accessible to students and the general public, however, and his books have been used widely as college texts.